How can a learning community be designed, in which teachers can learn and develop in the same ways that we believe children can learn and develop?

Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ How can a learning community be designed...   My background is in teacher learning and I have always been fascinated by the factors that influence teacher engagement in professional learning activities in schools. I have spent years studying teacher learning and comparing the learning that takes place in schools with learning that takes place in other industries. My findings are both controversial and disappointing - that in the very workplaces (schools) where the core business is learning, the quality of teacher learning experiences is often poor. Staff learning is frequently undervalued and underutilised. Too often teachers are working in isolation and their 'professional learning' is restricted to one-hour meetings after school each week and five 'training days' over the course of a year. I compared this to the potential learning that takes place in other workplaces, such as construction sites, steel factories, and hairdressing salons.